AN IFP GOVERNMENT WILL :
• Immediately deploy the SANDF to ports of entry and borders and fortify our borders
through the construction of border walls, to strengthen border control and ensure the
integrity of our borders.
• Invest in state-of-the-art border control technology, including drone technology,
while resourcing border management to prevent illegal migration, human trafficking,
drug smuggling, terrorism and other cross-border criminal activities.
• Invest in a stand-alone, capacitated National Immigration Inspectorate.
• Impose stricter controls at ports of entry. Asylum seeker processing and housing
centres must be set up at ports of entry where asylum seekers must await the outcome
of their applications.
• Ensure effective deportation and administration of the deportation system.
• Ban the operation of businesses found to be employing illegal migrants, for a stipulated
time-period. Fines have not proven to be a deterrent.
• Ensure more involvement from all spheres of government: municipalities and provinces
must assist in identifying, processing, and deporting illegal migrants.
• Ensure that harsh sentences are imposed on any Home Affairs’ official caught selling
South African documents. Both the sale and purchase of illegal documents will be
deemed a crime against the State.
• Revamp the Department of Home Affairs into a modernised, fit for purpose department,
by investing in infrastructure and technology.
• Ensure that all visa, refugee and asylum applications, and the tracking thereof, is moved
online.
• Implement a permit review process: all foreign nationals in possession of South African
permits should have these revalidated within a six-month period. If permit holders fail
to do so, the permit will be cancelled with immediate effect. This will serve to root-out
those permits which have been illegally obtained.
• Implement a six-month amnesty period: the amnesty period will allow those who are in
South Africa illegally, to either exit the country or apply for legal status.
• Pilot legislation to impose restrictions on the number of foreign nationals employed by
any business.
• Ensure that critical skills visas are issued within a four-week turnaround period.
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